Energy & Sustainability

Recommendations:

• Ensure new energy cost supports are fit for purpose and provide sufficient cover for firms facing exceptional price increases and competitive pressure.

• Undertake a comprehensive review of Ireland’s energy security and take action to address risk areas and give regulatory certainty to key technologies

• For An Bord Pleanala to exercise its discretion under sections 131 and 137 of the Planning Act to seek stakeholder feedback on ‘draft’ decisions.

• Ramp up investment in critical infrastructure using public-private partnerships (PPPs)

• Adequately resource the registration and licensing regime for commercial water abstraction

Ibec’s Better Lives, Better Business Campaign aims to make Ireland a better place to live and work by persuading policymakers to address these challenges around the country’s burgeoning capacity and infrastructure constraints.Ibec’s Better Lives, Better Business Campaign aims to make Ireland a better place to live and work by persuading policymakers to address these challenges around the country’s burgeoning capacity and infrastructure constraints.